• This insect hides in earthen lumps, straw, garbage heaps during the day and eats the crops at night. Large numbers can be observed in the affected field/crop. The tendency of this pest is to eat very fast and it can affect the entire field crop in a short time. Therefore, management / control of this pest is very important.

• Army worms attack the crop in groups together and mainly bite the leaves or other green part of the crop at the edge of the crop at night. During the day it hides under a crack or cold located in the field or in the shadow of a dense crop. Spraying of insecticide should be done immediately in the fields where the attack of Fall armyworm is visible.

• Chemical Management: Novaluran 5.25%+Emamectin Benzoate 0.9% SC @ 600 ml/acre or Flubendiamide 39.35% SC @ 50 ml/acre or Chlorantraniliprole 18.5% SC @ 60 ml/acre, or  Emamectin Benzoate 5% SG @ 100 g/acre Use Bavaria bassiana @ 250 g/acre.

• Biological Management: Spray Bavaria bassiana @ 500 gm/acre.

• In the areas where its number is less, in those areas, farmers should keep small piles of straw on the bunds of their fields and in the middle of the field. In the sun the army worm hides in these straw piles in search of shade. In the evening, these straw piles should be collected and burnt.

• Use pheromone traps in your farm, set up 10 traps in one acre.

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